Won't Back Down
If you can't beat the system... change it
If you can't beat the system... change it
Drama
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2012
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Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
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Cast:
Same Director
Details
Rated:
PG
Runtime:
121 min
Release date:
28 Sep 2012
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$5,310,554
Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
"Won't Back Down" details a bureaucratic process, and yet it plays more like an intense, emotional movie about parents and children.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
28 Sep 2012
rotten:
Americans desperately need to have some difficult conversations about the state of public education, but Won't Back Down goes about the task too awkwardly to be helpful or interesting.
– Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
28 Sep 2012
rotten:
Won't Back Down doesn't wholly make the grade.
– Bruce Demara,
Toronto Star,
28 Sep 2012
fresh:
Social-issue movies can have real societal impact. That's why Won't Back Down, which presses a lot of hot buttons, deserves to be taken seriously, and criticized seriously, on its own terms.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
28 Sep 2012
rotten:
It mixes attempts at realism and grit with transparently Hollywoodized good guys-vs.-bad guys social melodrama. That requires a deft directorial hand, but director Daniel Barnz doesn't seem to have it.
– Bilge Ebiri,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
1 Oct 2012